Subject: Re: Setting up PINE on a LINUX box

From: Allen R Sparks <[email-masked]>
Date: 02 Jan 1997 16:26:12 -0900

wao <[email-masked]> writes:

 > I tried to set pine (3.95) on my linux box so that ALL interactions
 > take place on my machine at work. The only thing I get to work is my
 > INBOX. I can read  and delete messages but I cannot post or see any
 > other folders I have. My SMTP server and my login machine are different.
 > So I login to my smtp server with login and password (can I automate
 > this?) and I get my INBOX. If I try to open other folders I get
 > IMAP connection broken. My login and password are the same on both
 > machines (smtp mail server and my work machine). If I try to compose
 > e-mail (by pressing c) I get the same error as above. If I continue
 > anyway I get several move when I attemp to sent the mail. What am I
 > doing wrong? Thanks in advance.
 > 
 > Bill Oswald
 > [email-masked]

You might want to include a copy of your .pinerc file.

I have a similar setup on my linux box, and it works fine.  The only
difference is that my SMTP server is my linux box (SMTP entry is
blank), but my inbox is a remote machine, and I use IMAP to connect.

I send mail from my linux box (From: header on outgoing mail has my
IMAP server address) but receive mail on the IMAP server.
   === Al

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From: Allen R Sparks <[email-masked]>
Date: 02 Jan 1997 16:43:44 -0900

> IMAP server address) but receive mail on the IMAP server.

I should think before I post.

Actually, pine does not have to be a daemon to do this.  If there was
a way to send a message from the command line using pine, you could
put the entry in your .forward file.

That being said, the "vacation" program I mentioned above is more
sophisticated in that it sends messages to the same email address
no more than once a week.  So a user can send you repeat messages, and
not get the same auto-reply for every message.
  === Al